Color Keys

A molecular scene usually communicates best when a color key is provided. It is planned that a future version of Proteopedia will provide a mechanism to place a color key in the legend or caption beneath the molecular scene in Jmol (see Proteopedia:Wishlist), but this is not yet available. At present, you can put colored text or an image in the wikitext of your page.

Color Key Templates

Templates are available to make it easy to insert a color key for some of the standard color schemes that are available on buttons under the Colors tab in the Scene Authoring Tool. How to insert a color key template into wikitext is is explained on the page about the DRuMS Standard Color Schemes, where you will also see examples of color keys as colored wikitext. Also, you can view the source of this page to see how it is done.

Elements

Hydrophobic/Polar

In Proteopedia's SAT is a button hydrophobic/polar. It applies these two colors according to the definitions built into Jmol:

Hydrophobic: Ala, Cys, Gly, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Pro, Trp, Tyr, Val.

Polar: Arg, Asn, Asp, Gln, Glu, His, Lys, Ser, Thr.

Jmol's categories attempt to categorize the sidechains as to their predominant characteristic. This is an oversimplification as Trp and Tyr have polar atoms; Arg, Gln, Glu, Lys have several aliphatic carbons, and His has an aromatic ring.

ConSurf

Only when your ConSurf-colored model has no yellow residues (residues with insufficient data in the multiple sequence alignment) it is OK to use this 10-color key:

Only when your ConSurf-colored model has no gray residues ("no data" chains that ConSurf could not process) it is OK to use this 10-color key:

Only when your ConSurf-colored model has no yellow residues (residues with insufficient data in the multiple sequence alignment), and has no gray residues ("no data" chains that ConSurf could not process), it is OK to use this 9-color key:

The above keys were generated by including the following Template wikitext blocks:

Other Color Schemes?

If you would like help setting up a Template in Proteopedia for a color key not yet available, please contact .

Coloring Text

If one of the templates above does not provide what you need, you can color text using HTML. For example, to produce

Red and Green

enter the following in the wikitext box:
<center><big><b><font color='red'>Red</font> and <font color='green'>Green</font></b></big></center>

The above example uses color names red and green. For more exotic colors, you can use Red-Green-Blue hexadecimal codes instead of color names. An extensive list of such codes is on the Jmol Colors page. For example,

Lithium and Copper

can be produced with
<center><big><b><font color='#cc80ff'>Lithium</font> and <font color='#c88033'>Copper</font></b></big></center>